YouTube Has Gone Too Far This Time
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In this video I discuss how YouTube is artificially slowing down videos in the Firefox browser artificially to probably get people to use Chromium browsers that Google has more control over.
  • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
    221·
    8 months ago

    Ye, turns out a couple lines of code were found with a 5 second delay in the code loading on youtube.

    Apparently it’s the anti-adblock script. Tho Google has been caught on this behaviour before

    • spudwart@spudwart.comEnglish
      71·
      8 months ago

      An anti-adblock script that stops running if you switch the user-agent to chrome?

      Sure.

      • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
        3·
        8 months ago

        I’m guessing chrome, developed by google, has an alternative approach. But also, it’s google, they most likely did this intentionally